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Performances:

• 128 times acoustic w/ band – top year 2003 (17 times)
• 62 times acoustic – top year – top year 1988 (16 times)
• 104 times w/band – top year 1975 (18 times)
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• First played: Oct 26, 1963, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
• Last performance: Oct 20, 2012, Power Balance Pavilion, Sacramento, CA

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William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears

De Montford Hall
Leicester, England
2 May 1965

Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen
She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn’t even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level
Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
That sailed through the air and came down through the room
Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle
And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears

Maple Leaf Gardens
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 December 1975

• Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar)
• Bob Neuwirth (guitar)
• T-bone J. Henry Burnett (guitar)
• Roger McGuinn (guitar)
• Steven Soles (guitar)
• Mick Ronson (guitar)
• David Mansfield (steel guitar, violin, mandolin ,dobro)
• Rob Stoner (bass)
• Howie Wyeth (piano, drums)
• Luther Rix (drums, percussion)
• Ronee Blakeley (vocal)

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all’s equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain’t pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught ’em
And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom
Stared at the person who killed for no reason
Who just happened to be feelin’ that way without warnin’
And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished
And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance
William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now’s the time for your tears

The Summit
Houston, Texas
12 November 1981

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• Fred Tackett (guitar)
• Steve Ripley (guitar)
• Al Kooper (keyboards)
• Tim Drummond (bass)
• Jim Keltner (drums)
• Arthur Rosato (drums)
• Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Madelyn Quebec (background vocals

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Hammersmith Odeon
London, England
4 February 1990

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• G. E. Smith (guitar)
• Tony Garnier (bass)
• Christopher Parker (drums)

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House Of Blues
Atlanta, Georgia
4 August 1996

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
• John Jackson (guitar)
• Tony Garnier (bass)
• Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

-Egil